Clayton Trutor
US History Since 1865: Prospective Reading List
Reconstruction/Gilded Age
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001).
Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion (1997)
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).
Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America. (1977)
Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism (1983).
Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion (1996)
McGerr, Michael. The Decline of Popular Politics: The Urban North, 1865-1920 (1985)
Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and
American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. (1987)
Rogers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1978).
Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial
City, 1870-1920. (1983)
Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief (1994)
Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America (1982).
Wiebe, Robert. The Search For Order: 1877-1920. (1968)
Progressive Era
Andrews, Thomas. Killing for Coal (2009)
Chambers, John Whiteclay. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era,
1890-1920.
Connolly, James. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism (1998)
Cott, Nancy. The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1997)
Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).
Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. (1999)
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow (1996)
Rodgers, Daniel. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)
Wiebe, Robert. The Search For Order (1966)
Race/Ethnicity/Urban:
Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight (2006)
Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice
Chauncey, George. Gay New York (1995)
Fields, Barbara. “Whiteness, Racism and Identity,” International Labor and Working
Class History, 60 (Fall 2001), 48-56.
Grossman, James. Land of Hope
Hirsch, Arnold. Making the Second Ghetto (1982)
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color (1998)
Kelley, Robin D.G. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1996).
Kruse, Kevin. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2006)
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects (2004).
Lassiter, Matthew. Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)
Payne, Charles. I Got the Light of Freedom (1995)
Roediger, David. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became
White: the Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2007).
Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American
Self, Robert. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)
Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1998)
Sugrue, Thomas. Sweet Land of Liberty (2008)
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Consensus:
Rise:
Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform (1996) & Voices of Protest (1986)
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990).
Gerstle, Gary and Steve Fraser, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989).
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform; from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955).
Colin Gordon, New Deals (1994)
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics (2005)
Fall:
Appy, Christian. Working-Class War (1993)
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New
Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. (2000)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic (2003)
Dudziak, Mary Cold War Civil Rights (2000)
Kruse, Kevin. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005).
Lassiter, Matthew. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)
May, Elaine. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988)
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors (2004)
Van Deburg, William L. New Day in Babylon (1992)
Schulman, Bruce. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and
Politics (2001)